Dave will never return to Alan's blog because he knows that no matter how hard he tries to get banned, Alan won't ban him. He knows he'll end up looking like a coward when he bails instead of getting kicked out, and he won't be able to put another notch in his martyrdom belt.

--------------"I wasn't aware that classical physics had established a position on whether intelligent agents exercising free were constrained by 2LOT into increasing entropy." -DaveScot